House of Commons - The revised draft National Policy Statements on energy

Energy and Climate Change - Third Report
The revised draft National Policy Statements on energy

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 January 2011.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Reform of the planning system

Consultation and parliamentary scrutiny 2009-2010

Publication of the revised draft National Policy Statements on Energy

Parliamentary Scrutiny of the revised draft National Policy Statements on energy

2 Background

The Government response to the previous Committee's recommendations

How the NPSs fit into the existing planning regimes

3 Changes to the Planning Act 2008 and Parliamentary scrutiny

Revised Appraisal of Sustainability

Designating the National Policy Statements

The formal ratification procedure

The informal ratification procedure

Debating and amending the NPSs

The decision-making process

4 NPSs and the planning system

Strategic spatial planning

The planning system

The visual impacts of infrastructure projects

5 The need for new capacity and the climate change implications

The revised need case

Relative need

Carbon Capture and Storage

Carbon implications of a new dash for gas

Nuclear energy and radioactive waste

Investment in new capacity

6 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Written Evidence